VISUAL POETRY

Expression is one of the most important human needs, but yet one of the most difficult one to achieve  especially when language barrier or trauma are involved. They can make words  really hard to find. We developped a technique that we called Visual Poetry to help people raise awareness about the traumas they went through. It's an aesthetic approach that can convey the violence of  the life journey's experience whilst still celebrating the beauty and talent of the person who was affected. This technique, involving creating visual tableaux to describe emotions,  is coming from a therapeutic practice called "family constellation" that  Sophie Besse, our Artistic Director,  picked up  from  her training in family therapy.  Our Visual Poetry approach  also has some  common grounds  with Theatre of the  Oppressed's Image Theatre except we orientate our work more towards art and theatre  playing  with light, metaphors, music and costumes as well. It is key for us to transform a traumatic memory  in a piece of art that will also generate a sense  of  pride.